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Dahab Slideshow
Dahab
Travel Blogs from Dahab, Egypt
Dahab
First, the travel day, then Dahab: Not much to report on the travel. The bus from Cairo to Dahab took 11 hours and included 7 checkpoints where they checked passports, and more importantly apparently, the Egyptian identity cards (there have been ...
Dahab Daze
I can not believe it: I am still hanging around here, doing nothing! Dahab is a sticky place, you come for a day or two and just stay. Someday find a job, because your money runs out... it happened to Summer, she is here for 2 years now, Lea (9 month) and ...
Moving on from the Coast
... adventure. If any of you find yourselves in this neck of the woods at any given point in your life, I suggest a stop in Dahab. Its got the laid back feel of a beach in Mexico, the quiet atmosphere of an Indian Ashram, a nightlife that would ...
Chilling in Dahab
... after making ourselves comfortable once they checked our truck for bombs or guns we finally pulled away from immigration at 2.30am getting into Dahab at 4am. For 5 days we have done very little which is the whole purpose of Dahab. Ate, sunbathed, read, ...
Journee off a Dahab
Journee de repos et de farniente pour se remettre de la journee de la veille. Il faut dire que la ville s'y prete bien avec sa grande prommenade bordee de terrasses. Nous passons une patrie de la journée a dormir pour se remettre de la veille. Le soir ...
My stomach about to blow
The red sea is amazing. So much life and color. I wonder how the bottom floor looked like when god split the waters for Moses. Walked along the sea border in the direction I haven't ventured to. Egyptians lay under their trucks for shade. The water so ...
Diving in Dahab, Red Sea, Egypt
... be out doing activities by 9.30am. Interestingly one can see 20kms across to the Saudi Arabia coastline from the beach at Dahab. Apparently an inexperienced Japanese windsurfer was blown all the way across and given a very cool reception. He was ...
Wandering the Sinai
... the morning sun. We're off to cross the Suez Canal, across the Sinai wilderness to the eastern edge of Egypt land. The resort community of Dahab awaits us, with its beach hotel kissing the sands of Aqaba. Yes, Moses and the Israelites would ...
Into Egypt we go
... can take between 5 and 24 hours (how this is possible is unknown as the crossing only takes 3 hours and you can see Egypt from the shores of Aqaba). Fellow travelers have even said they would “rather have an Israeli stamp in their passport than ...
Sea Snorkeling Suntans Sinai Sunrises Smoothies
... minutes at least and then at least you could get a couple of bites in without shooing them away. So cat lovers will love Dahab and Egypt- lose like me- will never want to see another cat in their lives! This morning we took a fun- but rather dangerous- ...
We're Leaving Tommorrow ... No Really, We Are
Dahab is quite a difficult place to leave. We were supposed to leave last night, but the combination of dreading the horrible overnight bus of endless police checkpoints, and the lure of the blue, blue sea convinced us to leave today instead. Today the ...
A Little R&R
Deposited on the shore of the Red Sea in Dahab. A town full of overpriced glowing beach front restaurants, loungers and cushioned chairs, smooth as silk salesmen, and beach bums. Dive shops are every few feet and snorkelers pollute the ...
Going Out in Style
Dahab, a small village on the coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba, a bay of water north of the Red Sea that seperates Egypt from Saudi Arabia, was a great decision on our part as it affords us the chance to end the last few days of traveling by relaxing in the ...
Diving in the Red Sea
... level of the hotel you get good views of both the mountains behind and over the sea to Saudi Arabia - just 17km or more from Dahab. 10th - In the morning I undertook a Navigation dive at Banner Fish Bay, where I had to work out my kick cycle and to ...
Day 7 (Dahab)
So today we start padi open water with desert divers, a highly recommended dive outfit in Dahab We are staying at Dolphin Camp, got a cool room right on the beach costing a tenner (£) a night In the morning we start with a theory ...
Egypt Blog
... getting up early for to beat the heat, and it was good to see some 3000 year old hieroglyphics with the colour still on them. Dahab: I am now writing this in Dahab, which is a great laid back town with very little hassle, hotels on the sea, and a ...
Can't make up my mind!
So tonight is my last night in Dahab i will be sad to go i even stayed one extra day perhaps i'd even stay longer however turns out the towns booked up tomorrow which helps give me a nudge. I haven't bought my bus ticket yet i'm sorta just hoping i can ...
Swept Away
... of Mt. Sinai, where Moses is to have received the ten commandments. We drove out to Mt. Sinai at around 11pm, the journey from Dahab taking about 2 hours. From here, in the dark armed with torches, we made our way all the way to the top, arriving at ...
Dahab - life's fantastic
... the gulf of Aqaba. Saudi Arabia is 10 km across the Gulf from Dahab and Israel and Jordan are very close as well. Dahab is part of Egypt but it is in Asia. THis area is called the Sinai penisula. Our hotel was beuatiful. We had a waterfront view ...
Day 6
... outta there for 150 Egyptian pounds, a rip off, but its getting late and people are attacking each other with sticks Arrive Dahab, stunning, find Dolphin Camp, stunning, get our room, stunning I am so stoked, we are right on the beach, ...
Delightful Dahab?
... a deep sinkhole just off the beach, with vertical sides covered with coral, fish, and learner divers. Our first night in Dahab was spent climbing mount Sinai, familiar to those biblically inclined as the place where god handed down the 10 commandments to ...
end of the line
... rice and various side dishes. I had grilled prawns and calamari, and I think the whole meal came to about $6!! Madness really. Egypt has felt like a vacation on my vacation, staying in a hotel room, eating out at nice restaurants, lying on the beach ...
Relaxing in the Oasis!
Our last few days in Egypt were a blissful four days of sun, water and relaxation. Dahab, about an hour from Sharm el Sheik, was very reminiscent of Ibiza ( where Sharm is more like Benidorm). Sam did his open water Padi diving certificate, and I did a ...
Back in Africa
... foreigners. This was good as I knew it would help us get a good deal on a ride from the port in Nuweiba to Dahab - my first destination in Egypt. Our boat was 99% Egyptian men. There were hardly any women. I couldn't believe it. I wondered if the ...
SWINE '09 PART 5: DAHAB
... snorkeling and lying around. We got ripped off by a sketchy guy at a place that offered juice and a bed for 25 L.E. Standard Dahab. It was still a relaxing day, though. The next day, we took off early on a bus to nearby Sharm ...
The man who saved the world
... the restaurants along the promenade were offering similar deals. Despite the trickle of Australian and European tourists, it was clear that Dahab had seen busier times. I was here to dive and that afternoon I had been diving in the Blue Hole and the ...
Hobnobbing in Dahab
December 18, 2007 Dahab, Egypt In Egypt a Big Mac costs 11 Egyptian pounds and the exchange rate is about 5.50 EP to the dollar. So the Egyptian Big Mac costs about $2. They both taste the same and Irina said her ¼ pounder here in Egypt actually has ...
Luxor-Hurgada-Suez-Dahab... 1200km de un tirón.
... cual Moises portando los Mandamientos por este remoto y perdido lugar del planeta. En el último control, y ya casi llegando a Dahab, nos pararon nuevamente y esta vez nos pusieron perros policias para controlar que no portaramos nada que nos pusiera en ...
Diving in the Desert
... some suspects. So it was almost impossible to sleep all night long. Bad thoughts: What a f.... I am doing here? When we reached Dahab we were exausted. A jeep pick us up in the bus station and drove us to the hotel Seven Heaven. Man we stayed a lot in ...
On the road
... , you meet new people... This day I had to make my way to Eilat, so 15 minutes before the mini-bus to Taba left (the Israeli-Egypt border town) I started haggling with the driver and managed a 20% discount. On the bus I met a Greek guy who I talked to for ...